Europe

A Roma community ‘activist’ who helped ensnare members of the Romanian Roma community struggling to apply for UK benefits into an elaborate scam aimed at ……Read More

Caught between nostalgia and misery, held back by criminality and discrimination, Roma (Gypsy) communities in the Moscow area struggle to adapt to modern life. “I’m ……Read More

Can preservationists convince the new mayor to protect this architectural gem, restoring one wooden house at a time? For much of the 20th century, Samara ……Read More

The iPhone may be the "in" thing, but Russian operators are courting the elderly with cheap, no-frills, easy to operate mobile phones. While mobile phone ……Read More

As a former prime minister serving under Boris Yeltsin, Chernomyrdin looked for compromises between parties in the turbulent 1990s. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to ……Read More

In contrast with his predecessor, Sergei Sobyanin has authorized demonstrations by opposition movements of all stripes It is a tradition that has usually brought together ……Read More